Wednesday, June 27, 2012

Now You Can Say You've Seen it: The Earliest Photograph of a Person

You have to squint to see the guy getting his shoes shined.
Via Can Turtles Fly:


Oldest Photo of a Person
Boulevard du Temple by Daguerre, Paris, France (circa 1838)
(source: Scanned from The Photography Book, Phaidon Press, London, 1997. Downloaded from Wikipedia Commons on June 24, 2012)

Previously:
Nasty bugger what with the devil horns and all
tornado
Oldest known photograph of a tornado
Image ID: wea00206, NOAA's National Weather Service (NWS) Collection
Location:
22 miles southwest of Howard, South Dakota

Photo Date:
1884 August 28
From NOAA
HT: Wicked Weather Pics
And:
Oldest Known Pornography Found in France